Information acquisition and management has always had a profound impact on societal and organizational progression. However, as computing dramatically advances the level of intelligence associated with management technologies, the breadth of their dispersal, and ultimately the impact of the information itself, the utilization and management of information science and technology also gains profound importance. This change-driven environment creates a critical need for a comprehensive, up-to-date reference encompassing the full range of concepts, issues, methods, technologies, and trends associated with the field.

The Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition is a 10-volume compilation of authoritative, research-based articles contributed by thousands of researchers and experts from all over the world. This discipline-defining encyclopedia serves research needs in numerous fields that are affected by the rapid pace and substantial impact of technological change. With an emphasis on modern issues and the presentation of potential opportunities, prospective solutions, and future directions in the field, it is a relevant and essential addition to any academic library’s reference collection.

You may access the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology inside the buildings of the National Library of Luxembourg.

Access via a-z.lu: http://www.a-z.lu/BIBNET:ALEPH_LUX01001338762

Consortium Luxembourg is happy to announce that we’re now providing access to Routledge Handbooks Online. Routledge Handbooks Online (RHO) is the new online home for Routledge Handbooks, Companions, and Worlds content.

Routledge Handbooks Online brings together a highly acclaimed, world-class collection of handbooks spanning 18 diverse subject areas, all on one digital platform. Every handbook is edited by leading scholars, is peer-reviewed, and provides a definitive overview of a whole subject area or sub-discipline.

On RHO, every handbook chapter acts as a standalone piece of scholarship, complete with its own abstract and metadata, making it completely searchable and browsable, providing powerful functionality to the student and researcher.

All 300 titles DRM-free and content available as HTML and PDF, allowing functionality such as highlighting, adding notes, downloading, and printing.

Routledge Handbooks Online features collections in the following areas:

• Archaeology & Classics
• Asian Studies
• Business & Economics
• Communication,  Journalism, Media & Culture
• Criminal Justice & Criminology
• Education
• Environment & Sustainability
• Health & Social Care
• History
• Law
• Linguistics
• Philosophy
• Politics
• Psychology
• Security Studies
• Sociology
• Sport & Leisure
• Tourism, Hospitality & Events Management

Routledge Handbooks are accessible for library card holders of the National Library as well as University of Luxembourg.

Access Routledge Handbooks Online here.

All ebooks can also be found via findit.lu (ebook search) or a-z.lu.

We are pleased to announce that Consortium Luxembourg now provides access to 990 ebooks (2013/14 publications) from Oxford Scholarship Online.

Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is a vast and rapidly expanding monograph database, bringing together the best scholarly publishing from around the world. Users can explore different subject areas, including Business and Management, Law, Political Science, Social Work or Psychology, helping to broaden users’ research horizons.

User benefits

• View abstracts at book and chapter level for all titles – providing at-a-glance access to the content
• Download chapters to PDF – enabling research on-the-go
• Frequent update schedule ensures access to the latest titles at the forefront of academic scholarship
• Share titles, chapters, abstracts, and search results with colleagues using social bookmarking tools and citation export

Start using Oxford Scholarship Online today at: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com.proxy.bnl.lu
All ebooks can also be found on a-z.lu and findit.lu.

Download a short user guide here.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2014 to Jean Tirole “for his analysis of market power and regulation”.

Jean Tirole is one of the most influential economists of our time. He has made important theoretical research contributions in a number of areas, but most of all he has clarified how to understand and regulate industries with a few powerful firms.

Many industries are dominated by a small number of large firms or a single monopoly. Left unregulated, such markets often produce socially undesirable results – prices higher than those motivated by costs, or unproductive firms that survive by blocking the entry of new and more productive ones.

From the mid-1980s and onwards, Jean Tirole has breathed new life into research on such market failures. His analysis of firms with market power provides a unified theory with a strong bearing on central policy questions: how should the government deal with mergers or cartels, and how should it regulate monopolies? (Press Release Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)

Find more information about Jean Tirole and the Nobel Prize here.

Some of Jean Tirole’s books are now available online via findit.lu and a-z.lu:

>> Jean Tirole’s ebooks in a-z.lu

>> Direct link to Ebsco ebooks